Autumnal musings from “Peanuts”

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Here are two depictions of autumn as imagined by the brilliant Charles M. Schulz. Only he could have conceived of and drawn Snoopy dancing with a falling leaf.

In the second strip, Woodstock reviews various signs and finds the correct way to fly south.

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Even though Schultz died in 2000, the wonderful characters he created are still available in myriad forms, including books, buttons, calendars, lunchboxes, magnets, pins, stuffed animals, memorable television specials (“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a holiday tradition in our house) and even on spatulas from Williams-Sonoma.

There’s 355 million—the number of world-wide readers of “Peanuts” according to Schulz’s obituary in The New York Times–reasons “Peanuts” is still wildly popular. In addition, Schulz created about 18,250 strips in his almost 50 years of drawing the daily comic and his work has been translated into 20 languages.